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The next time you feel like your professional life has gotten too complicated, get some face time with a seasoned Quality Assurance pro. The job? Easy stuff such as exposing the production flaws in embedded systems, integrated systems and connected devices. What seems like a negative focus requires positive determination to straddle the line between […]
An unfair truth: Project Managers are expected to be janitors. When there’s a mess, the PM must finagle and finesse the problematic actions, unexpected errors and sidetracked key players back into one clean and streamlined product-building machine. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: No other team member has as much of an […]
What’s on the Business Analyst’s wish list? Oh, plenty of illogical, unreasonable and preposterous things such as these evergreen dreams: Increased product quality On-time and on-spec product (and project) delivery Less time waiting for input, feedback and decisions Reduced time and effort spent on non-value-added activities, such as wrangling information, rehashing past decisions, tracking down […]
40-50%. That’s the percentage of companies that manage the creation, iteration, testing and launch of new products with MS Office, Google Docs and other all-purpose documentation tools, according to research in Gartner’s “Market Guide for Software Requirements Definition and Management Solutions.” Many other companies muddle through the best they can with clunky, kludgey, user-unfriendly legacy […]
Stop chasing down documents in DOORS and focus on the items within them that matter. For many years, IBM’s Rational DOORS (v.9) has been a widely adopted Requirements Management (RM) tool for teams working with high-compliance systems engineering programs. Because it’s often sold into the enterprise as part of a larger IBM suite, its widespread […]
Open just about any business management book or blog and the topic of accountability—and the eternal quest for it—will turn up. But when your world revolves around managing the creation, iteration and release of new products, traceability much more accurately defines what you seek. The frustrating fact is that, for most product managers, trying to […]
“There are so many moving objects when managing a product. You must be aware of them all (managing vendors, internal politics, management structure, development teams, testers, project managers, designers, architects, businesses, customers, etc.), and like a game of chess, you must be thinking ahead several moves in order to react (or not) properly. Nailed it. […]
And one proven way to handle them with speed and finesse. For product managers and their counterparts, the road to launch is a fight to keep every task, every detail and every change grounded in business goals. It’s not enough to be fast. Or to deliver the right product. You need to do both. Yet, […]